The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

when about 5000 diplomas will be awarded.
About l. 900 of the class will be present IN per
| son.
A BOY at san Diego, Cal, is so electric that by
/ rubbing his hands over a box or book and
then waving his hand he can Lift the object from
/ the table.
/ \ MrcHAHIcsBuRG PA) BOY of Il shot a
wooden box 2Je inches square off the top of his
! brothers head at distance of twenty-five feet,
/ using Flobert air rifle.
A JoURNEYMAN shoemaker in Bingen ION the
Rhine) has invented a water velocipede, with
! which he has made successful trial trips and
| which promises to lead TO a regular aquatic
| sport
AFTER six months OF trial the library and
reading rooHs at Bradford, in England, are to
| be opened to the public permanently on sun
| days. The average number of Sunday VISITORS
| has exceeded 800.
| FIFTEEN osTRICHEs have just been Matched
from a nest of seventeen fertile eggs at Mount
| Fairview ostrich farm, near San Diego. This is
| the best record ever made in America. There are
| eighty birds at the farm now.
SrEPHENvILLE, TEX, has a rival of Fannie
Mills, the big-footed girl of Ohio, in the person
of Maud Calisher. She has to have her shoes
made on a special last. and they are said to De
| fully No 1875. She cannot walk.
THE cooperative colony at Port Angeles, w.
T., is reported by the Seattle Times TO be in a
prosperous condition. About $50 colonists are
reported TO be there at present, and all appear
| to be contented. Port Angeles is on Fuca straits,
| in the extreme Northwest of Washington Terri
| tory
A YOUNG MAN in Delta, Col, was numerically
cowhided few days ago for merely asking one
| of the ranchmen if he could spark his daughter.
| The old man said that if the young man had
| asked him to court or sit up with her it would
| have been all right but that the word spark
made him kinder mad.
An old negro at Weldon, n. c., at a recent lee
t,lre, said: when l see a man going home with
gallon of whisky and half a pound of meat.
| OATS temperance lecture enough for me, and L
sees it every day. l know that eberything in
| his home is on the same scale-gallon of misery
| 10 every half pound of comfort
| wELLDRILI.ER on the farm of Henry Wat
son, near Alfred Centre, n. Y, at the depth of
seventy feet, struck a spring of wonderful force
| The water overlooked the garden. yard and
| fields. and the stream is wearing large outlet
| from the earth, with no diminution of volume
| 1t seems to be similar to the famous Belle
| Plains well in Iowa.
| A WOMAN in Chico, Cal, awakened by the
| Earring of an earthquake recently, thought the
| noise was made by burglar and, Selling her
| revolver, she rushed to an open window, from
which she fred a vOlley in the direction of the
| supposed robber, The shaking ceased, and she
again retired, and was considerably surprised to
| hear a few hours later that she had been shoot.
| ing at an earthquake
! An industrial school for boys is proposed at
| Chicago by Mrs. Celia w. Wallace, a rich
| woman She wants an incorporation, with a
| capital of S500,000, and large public support.
| The idea is to have the institution both home
| and school, and, besides the dormitories and
| workshop there will be military drill room
and schoolhouse, where the rudiments of,an
| education can be acquired while the boy is
| learning trade.
| A SINGULAR accident occurred to George
Smith, of East Orange, N. J., on Tuesday. He
was about to go into hay NOW to throw down
some hay. He threw the pitchfork up, intend
| ing it should land in the NOW. The fork fell
short, and catching at one end turned completely
| over as it fell. One of the prongs entered
| Smiths left eye, entirely destroying the sight.
| II penetrated past the eye TO the brain, so that
| the man Instantly became insane and has re-
| manned so.
AN Albany, N. Y, physician has madea singu
lar discovery. He says he has noticed a failing
in muscular power of many business men, and
on inquiry found that they had been using type
| writers or Stenographers instead of writing their
| own letters. This strange as it may appear has
deprived, the physician says, business men of a
| little very desirable muscular exercise of the
| right arm and has to some extent affected their
| general health. The observation of the physi-
clan seems to have been extraordinarily acute.
A FANCY price for portrait was paid in
England recently, when &10,395 was given for
Bouchers picture of Nine. de Pompadour, from
| the late Lord Lonsdale's collection. This is
almost the highest sum ever realized by a por-
trait at auction The famous French beauty is
| represented full length, reclining in her boudor
| with book in her hand her pet spaniel at her
| feet and clock curtain and writing-table in
| the background. She wears blue silk dress,
| with pink ribbons and garlands of roses. The
| picture was painted in 1155, and was among the
| old masters shown at Burlington House. Lon
| don, in 1876
| JOSEPH GARRISON of Idaho, who has Just been
notified from Washington that bis pension was
allowed, claimed back pension from 1915 BY
temporarily waving heavier claim for entire
| disability resulting from wound on the head,
| inflicted by boulder thrown from the roof of a
| house at the storming of the City of Mexico he
| has been allowed Sl2 month, with 8 per cent.
| interest per annum, since 1S4S-perod of thirty
| nine years. Having served in the war between
the States as a lieutenant in the Second Califor-
mia Cavalry, he expects to get an additional
sum. The allowance to him so far will secure
! him over $1,000 and when his other claims for
| increased pension are adjudicated, he expects
to receive $4,000 to $4,000 more.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS illness was not a cold, v
says London Truth, "as was officially announc.
ed but, like most of his other attacks of late
years, was due TO his excessive and untimely
|
dishes in the whole range of German or Russian
cuisine. The physicians have informed Prince
Bismarck that a repetition of these imprudences
will aSSuredly prove fatal Ii is an odd thing
that the Duke of Queensbury (old o. died at the
age of SSfrom the effects of SlIrfeit of nee
tarines and peaches. He persisted in devour
ing the fruit in defiance of the efforts of his pr
waite physicians, who were stimulated to I'M
wonted zeal as he remunerated them on the
| Chinese system of paying so much a week as
long as they kept him alive"
THE unspeakable Turk has his own way to
run newspaper, described by an American
writing from Sivas, capital of the Turkish Vii
oyet in Asia Minor. Sivas has a population of
10000, but only one newspaper, and that is
| owned by the local government. 1t is badly
| printed sheet about l2xl5 inches in size; has no
Geographic news, and no local. except of the
official kind; has reporters, and does not ask
! for subscribers. But ii has subscribers all the
| same. The publishers simply send the paper TO
| every person in the government employ and
| deduct the subscription price from his salary
| He can read the paper or let il alone, as suits
! him. The editor has a sinecure His duties
consist of seeing that the official notes are
| printed as they are handed i'm. Sivas is the
| centre Of a region rich in important minerals
| and the city has lively trade, but the editor
! does not bother his head about the DEVELOPMENT
| OF the one or the increase of the other.
WHOEVER HEARS" the Toronto Globe saws.
'of an American social favorte of the other
sex, except, perhaps, the late United States
minister Mr. Lowell or delightful DR.. Wendell
Holmes, Mr.. Phelps, Mr.. Allen Thorndyke
! Rice, or an occasional novelist or soy Who
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